"That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized. I now had further cause for serious reflection.

Right up to the present I have never lost the feeling of
contradiction that lies behind all knowledge. My life has been miserable and difficult, and yet to others, and sometimes to myself, it has seemed rich and wonderful.

Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness."

The bhava of Rahu-Shani is determinative.
The most challenging implications are partly satisfied after
Professor Shani's
pakvatya * maturity at age-36 and completely finished after Rahu
matures at the native's age-48. After age 50, this is more of an
interesting combination with less of the intensely churning push-pull internal resistance that often
characterizes the first five decades.

Overall, Shani-yuti-Rahu is a challenging yoga. Much depends upon
the disposition of the bhava-pathi and the angle of Shani-yuti-Rahu
vis-a-vis the Chandra-lagna.

Professor Shani is the expert lecturer on the topic of rules and
regulations. Shani insists on the strict maintenance of the
social order with minimal change. He demands an
orderly process, with graded lessons and
regular intervals of testing and examination for all members of
society. Shani requires legitimation via licensing and
degree-granting (including pedigrees of ancestry) in order to
confirm suitability to the social rank and duties. He prefers a
zero-change environment, resists innovation, and He permits only the
most cautious and arduous promotions up the steps of the social
hierarchy. Shani's structures are lawfully governed and His pace is
very slow. Shani's actions and
effects do eventually produce a just results. (His uttama-amsha is
Thula.) The fairness of Shani's outcomes might be evident only in
retrospect. His systems are rigid and His methods can be harsh.

Professor Rahu is an opportunist. His expertise consists of a
clever, remarkable, fascinating ability to find the
loopholes in the law. His specialty is
the quick slither through a crevice, a
creeping under broken fences, or a trickster's legerdemain behind
the illusion of smoke and mirrors. Rahu is utterly unconcerned with
matters of law or fairness. His goal is expedience and His character
is roguish. He seeks privileges and proprieties which belong to the
class of beings immediately above Him, and He uses all means at His
disposal to facilitate His ambition to succeed. Rahu breaks
barriers, jumps fences, ignores limits, and catapults over obstacles
in His pursuit of gains and goals. Rahu's motto = "Social-material
success - whatever it takes."

Because their styles and
methods are egregiously inharmonious, this pair are extremely
unsuitable in partnership. However the one thing they have in common
is that both Shani and Rahu are intently focused upon social
material achievement. Psycho-electro-magnetic emotional, spiritual, or other
non-material philosophical experiences or perceptions are largely
irrelevant to these two operators. They are tightly entrained to the
materially "real" world. (Latin res = tangible thing =
English adjective "real")

Mixed Systems

Thus in whichever bhava the
Shani-yuti-Rahu yoga pairing may be found, it is reasonable to
expect some socially significant achievement.
The methods used to earn that achievement cannot be purely lawful
within any single system. But on the other hand. the excitement of
the foreigner, the interloper, the trickster may also stimulate a
socially recognized success that can be granted to skillful handlers
of mixed systems. Again, whether the mixture
succeeds will depend considerably upon the ruler of this
adversarial pair.

Shani delivers a narrative that requires slow, cautious, lawful,
and regularly tested actions. Rahu delivers a narrative which
encourages opportunistic risk-taking, charlatanism, and pretense as
the preferred path toward social-material achievement. while
specifically ignoring Shani's rules about separating tribes, assets,
or mental categories. Rahu the Mix-Master must partner with Shani
the Anti-Mix-Master and in the partnership they are constantly
churning.

High Tension with Remarkable Coping Devices

Even for those who are capable of
mastering (Shani) the tricky task (Rahu) of mixing large systems
(economic, cultural, scholarly, linguistic, scientific) there is a
constant pressure upon the social personality due to the
tensionbetween the two
incommensurable methods.

Shani-mandated methods are lawful and whichever bhava is occupied
by Shani will entail a slow, orderly process involving a body of
strict rules. Rahu-mandated methods are exciting and driven by
passionate ambition.

Shani-yuti-Rahu
in 6-10-11 yields some of the most remarkable results that combines
a nearly unbearable level of stress-tension with a passionate
opportunism to carry out difficult duties.

POTUS-pair-37 Watergate 1912-1993Pat Ryan Nixon
* Shani-yuti-Rahu-Meza-6 .
While her husband was fueling a violently unpopular war and the
protests threatened to rip the nation asunder, Pat maintained
the "Plastic Pat" facade of a classic California Republican
wife. She avoided controversy and presented a slim
mannequin figure through a secret beauty habit of chain-smoking to
relieve both appetite and tension. Only
after her husband POTUS-37 Watergate 1913-1994Richard Nixon
was revealed to have participated in felony burglary and tax
evasion while holding the highest office of public trust, did
Pat's composure seem slightly askew. Behind closed doors, she
was heard by Whitehouse staff to have screamed at her disgraced
husband "You have ruined my life!" However the public saw only
her serene facade.

Between Sober Shani's slow, orderly resistance to innovation and
Roguish Rahu's
passionate, fascinating urge toward opportunistic risk, there is
constant tension caused by Mixed Systems in matters of
fleshbody-based identity. Marriage is fraught with stress due to the
native's narrative drive to distinguish one's identity via behaviors
that are both thrilling and taboo-breaking (Rahu) and conventionally
approved (Shani). irregular arrangements in regard to the social
identity (masked by a conventional appearance) particularly the
attempt to gain legitimacy via marriage, paired with a fascinating
and often charismatic physical appearance.

Wizard of Oz 1922-1969 entertainerJudy Garland *
Shani-Kanya
yuti Rahu-Kanya
yuti Guru-Kanya
(1) in 10th-from-Chandra
* a brilliant entertainer and diligent hard worker, she married five
times. In childhood she had different names and personalities
(normal name and stage name). She became a notable mixer of the
truth in adulthood, telling tale tales about movie-making events
that were disconfirmed by other participants. She accepted
advance payment for an autobiography but did not write it. In
her own words, Ms. Garland used an expedient (Rahu) approach,
showing what others wanted to see and saying what others wanted to
hear.

Shani-yuti-Rahu in bhava-2 indicates an old
shaman. The life of an oracle (2) is never easy. Shamans hear
the sounds of the Greater Pattern and speak the
truth, but when the weather turns bad, the hunt fails, or a
scapegoat is needed, the Shaman is the first to be blamed. The
mystical, magical shamanic gifts often become dangerous liabilities.

Most people born in the modern age with Shani-yuti-Rahu in
bhava-2 may have a vague memory (2) of having been a shamanic truth-sayer
and also they remember a very unpleasant death on this account. The
present lifetime often involves some element of punishment for
telling the truth, and the family conversely create a culture of
denial and lies. It is a difficult pairing, indicating the
suppression of the ancient gifts that was necessary for survival.

Most challenging rashi for this pair are Simha (look for heart
stress, power struggles) Mesha (look for brain stress, challenge to
innovation) and Vrischika (sexual-reproductive stress, poisons).

The good news is that the Age of Meena, which marginalized the
Shani-Rahu terrain of Kumbha into the relative 12th, is fading away.
The Age of Kumbha, which embodies the Shani-Rahu terrain of
Kumbha-systems, has begun. Those gifted with occult knowledge of the
inter-connectivity of all life are now safe and free (generally) to
say what they know.

Values Acquisition

Between Shani's slow, orderly resistance to innovation and Rahu's
passionate, fascinating urge toward opportunistic risk, there is
constant tension caused by Mixed Systems being deployed in matters
of treasury acquisition. The target treasuries to be acquired may be
knowledge hoards such as languages, songs, histories, libraries, and
lineage teachings. The treasuries may be collections of material
items of value such as monies, jewels, antiques, animal herds,
seeds, or other movable assets. Tendency toward expedient speech and
a thrilling (Rahu) knowledge base combined with recognized
achievement in areas such as banking, collections, language, or
alternate history. Often involved in the world of eso-teric (beyond
Earth) knowledge.

In classroom-2, Professor Rahu's ambitions
may combine with Professor Shani's fears in a rather
infelicitous way that afflicts the treasuries of
family lineage, speech and song, face and eyes, capital wealth, and knowledge of history.

The native may be challenged to deal with lying by social authority figures
and misrepresentation of the historic values lineage
by Rahu-style impostors.

The positive result
(available after Rahu matures age 48-50) is
compassionate and effective skill in identifying and
managing the agents of mayhem.
Rahu-yuti-Shani enforces the study of human
motivation. The outcome of this "boot camp"
intensive immersion in falsification and deception
under social camouflage may be a remarkable
understanding of falsified
historiesand the personality disorders
of those who fabricate socially accepted lies.

Typical of Professor Rahu, these agents are
"tricky" and their
camouflage is particularly challenging to assess due
to its mask of social legitimacy. However once Shani
and Rahu have both matured, the native's
understanding of truth-and-lie may become quite
advanced.

Much depends upon the rashi, since certain rashi
such as Kumbha actually support the Shani-Rahu
pairing quite well. However in a rashi that is
hostile to both Shani and Rahu, such as Vrischika,
the family history may be woven from lies designed
to disguise some socially uncomfortable truth.

Those who lie do so
because it empowers them to lie, and
compulsive liars are generally only able to end
their lying by an act of death. Rahu feeds on
deception and interruption of all kinds, which He
uses as a platform to launch Himself toward higher
privilege.

Professor Shani's fear of punishment and imposed
conformity along with Professor Rahu's ambition to
self-promotion via preposterous lying can create an
unsavory combination in the family lineage. The
agents in 2 are also 6th-from-9th therefore they are
enemies of the father, and Impostors (Rahu) who are
not properly members of one's family may claim to be
legitimate parents or legitimate children, and take
the social privileges allocated to those roles.

Family treasuries such as bank savings (2) may
be misappropriated by such agents, and knowledge of
the family or financial situation altered (Rahu)
then misrepresented in social-authoritative
environments such as the law courts. Vimshottari
periods of Rahu tend to feature not only the
typically over-reaching of the Rahu-agents but also
the particular feature that these agents are
disguised as family members or holders of the true
lineage.

The Shani-Rahu problems are most
acute during youth and early adulthood, when the
young person may feel heavily oppressed by a social
order in which they have not yet earned personal
authority. The most challenging outcomes are partly finished
after Professor Shani's
pakvatya * maturity at age-36 and completely
finished after Rahu matures at the native's age-48.
Outcomes are not any easier to manage in youth but
the after-48 "magic 50" empowerments are more
accessible when Shani-uttama or Shani-yogakaraka.

During
Vimshottari periods of Rahu, agents appear who
claim "I hail from your lineage; I represent your
values; I know what you know; we share history; I am
family." However, with the Shani trying to
legitimize the ever-illegitimate Rahu, the
subsequent Shani bhukti will typically bring a
testing approbation (Shani). Prolonged or strict
testing is likely to expose the false or pretentious
values of the poseurs. During the Shani bhukti, one
returns to the most reliable and conventional
Shani-2 status including a return to reduced
resources and cautious speech.

Between Shani's slow, orderly resistance to innovation and Rahu's
passionate, fascinating urge toward opportunistic risk, there is
constant tension caused by Mixed Systems being deployed in matters
of home and homeland, housing, shelter, boundaries, schooling,
policing, patriotism, protection, vehicles, transportation, farming,
and the broad range of cultural habits which form a pattern of
comforting rhythms and routines. Tendency toward irregular parenting
arrangements (masked by a conventional appearance) paired with a
display of lands-and-properties. Often involved in complex property
privileges which mix old-order land ownership customs with expedient
environmental protection narratives.

The Tower 1865-1939William Butler Yeats* passion for bargaining
(Rahu-Thula) often
blocked by social obligations and class-status identity * also his
opposing Zukra-yuti-Ketu-11
signals a dispersed community populated by numerous lady-loves
and sweets

Golden Girls 1934-2010 dramaRue McClanahan + Zukra.
Married six times. Famed dramatist and creative writer. Her lifetime
drama career peaked in her 50's and 60's when she brilliantly
portrayed aging women characters (Shani)

Bhava-5 = a challenging location for anti-individualistic Shani
. Yet, privilege-seeking Rahu basks in the attention of the limelight. Tendency toward irregular
arrangements in regard to children (masked by a conventional
appearance) paired with a display of political, dramatic or creative
celebrity. Often involved in endeavors of gamesmanship which mixes
old-order political rules with expedient individualized
exceptions-to-those-rules.

POTUS-04 USA-Constitution 1751-1836James Madison
* challenging stepson. As orderly legal thinker striving to
establish a viable social order under the new Constitution, selfish
politics in general would have annoyed him despite his nearly
lifelong engagement

Shani-5 receives drishti
from Rahu-1 = similar but slightly less intensely
conflicted. The individual personality (1) is amplified although there is
resistance (Shani) to the results of vidyasthana, which somewhat
blunts the decision-making intelligence (5)

Bhava-6 is a top-performing location for both Shani and Rahu.
Therefore this unhappy pair are likely to produce material success.
Between Shani's slow, orderly resistance to innovation ++
risk-rewarding Rahu's
passionate, fascinating urge toward opportunistic risk, there is
constant tension caused by Mixed Systems being deployed.
Areas of success include Litigation, formalized accusation and
complaint, war and crime, pollution, health and medicine, police and military,
betrayal and divorce, social conflict and
attempts to remedy the conflict, including all ministries of
service. Tendency toward irregular arrangements in regard to
disputes, disavowal of marriage, broken promises and imbalanced conditions.
Yet Shani masks these taboo-breakers with a
conventional appearance. Shani grants timing and Rahu grants the art
of the
calculated risk. Often involved in the worlds of illicit
relationships, crime, disease, and
war. One may be exceptionally and unexpectedly successful
by dint of using mixed systems.
Operating in an
unpredictable way and keeps the adversary off-balance. Many
repetitions of a difficult problem (6) may produce suddenly, after
many failures, a working solution. Mixes
old-order rules for managing conflict (Shani) with expedient disregard for
those rules (Rahu).

Shani obtains dig-bala in bhava-7 lawcourts, but Rahu finds
expedient advantage in the making of agreements. In bhava-7, Shani
has more weight than Rahu suggesting that the lawful principles of
the social order are likely to remain unbroken despite Rahu's
ongoing attempts to bend and twist the rulest for personal gain.
Between Shani's slow, orderly resistance to innovation and Rahu's
passionate, fascinating urge toward opportunistic risk, there is
constant tension caused by Mixed Systems being deployed in matters
of vows, promises, alliances, trusts, covenant, negotiations,
bargains, deals, and match-making. Tendency toward irregular
arrangements in regard to marriage (masked by a conventional
appearance) paired with a display of advantage gained from making of
alliances. Often mixes old-order rules for consecrated avowal and sealing of an
agreement with expedient disregard for those agreements.

Shani who hates change is deeply threatened in the
whirling, churning change-intensive sacrificial environment of
bhava-8; but Rahu finds expedient advantage in the upheaval.
In bhava-8, Rahu is better positioned than Shani. Taboo-breaking and
subterfuge are more successful than trying to maintain a besieged
old older. Between Shani's slow, orderly resistance to innovation
and Rahu's passionate, fascinating urge toward opportunistic risk,
there is constant tension caused by Mixed Systems being deployed in
matters of identity change, sudden disruptions, discovery of
the hidden, confidential information, secret assets and unseen
alliances. Tendency toward irregular arrangements in regard to the
spouse's family and assets (masked by a conventional appearance)
paired with a display of advantage gained from involvement with
emergencies and disasters. Often mixes old-order rules for discovery
of hidden activities with expedient disregard for the rules in times
of political, financial, or survival emergency.

Between Shani's slow, orderly resistance to innovation and Rahu's
passionate, fascinating urge toward opportunistic risk, there is
constant tension caused by Mixed Systems being deployed in matters
of doctrine and the indoctrinators, such as the professors,
preachers, and proselytes. Tendency toward irregular
arrangements in regard to fathers, father-figures and fatherhood
(masked by a conventional appearance) paired with a display of
passion for ideology and articles of faith. Often mixes old-order
rules of socially approved catechism with expedient disregard for
the rules in matters of philosophy, theory, and understanding of the
higher view.

Between Shani's slow, orderly resistance to innovation and Rahu's
passionate, fascinating urge toward opportunistic risk, there is
constant tension caused by Mixed Systems being deployed in matters
of public order, pyramid-shaped class systems, bureaucracies, and
the rule of law. Tendency toward irregular
arrangements in regard to executive duties
(masked by a conventional appearance) paired with a display of
passion for high-visibility positions. Often mixes old-order
rules of socially approved promotion to legislative authority with expedient disregard for
those rules when there is a power vacuum in leadership.

Between Shani's slow, orderly resistance to innovation versus Rahu's
passionate, fascinating urge toward opportunistic risk, there is
constant tension .Mixed Systems
are deployed in matters
of social participation networks, economies, ecologies, and
friendship linkages. Tendency toward irregular
arrangements in regard to voluntary friendship
(masked by a conventional appearance) paired with a display of
passion for marketplace profits. Often mixes old-order
rules of socially approved methods for making profits with expedient disregard for
those rules when there is an opportunity for extraordinary gains.

Nepal 1945-2001 The Last Hindu KingBirendra Bir Bikram Shah (11) social
participation networks. King Birendra was educated at top western
universities. He wished to slowly introduce reforms of democratic
government and marketplace economics, aimed to reduce the crushing
traditional poverty of his people. In this aim he was violently
opposed by small but absolutely empowered, economically entrenched
ruling class

Rahu-1 receives incoming drishti from Shani-11
The individual personality (1) is amplified but Shani's conformism
and economic (11) conservatism tend to blunt the ability for
authentic personal expression. Appears unique and courageous, but is
actually cowed by social pressure to conform to the group (11).

Between Shani's slow, orderly resistance to innovation and Rahu's
passionate, fascinating urge toward opportunistic risk, there is
constant tension caused by Mixed Systems being deployed in matters
of private environments such as bedrooms, prison cells, meditation
areas, hospitals, hotels, dormitories, and research laboratories. Tendency toward irregular
arrangements in regard to prayer and clairsentient spiritual
guidance
(masked by a conventional appearance) paired with a display of
passion for the excitement of distant lands. Often mixes old-order
rules of socially approved conduct in non-transparent spaces with expedient disregard for
those rules when there is an opportunity for extraordinary
adventure.

Lawfully (Shani) Over-reaching (Rahu)

Risk-rewarding Rahu
over-reaches and over-represents the activities of Shani's two
bhava.

POTUS-pair-37Pat Ryan Nixon
had Rahu with Shani rules 3+4. With her collusion,
Pat's educational credentials (4) ofwere
opportunistically misrepresented. by
her husband's political handlers. As a young woman, Mrs. Nixon had earned a college bachelor's degree with an added teaching credential. At the time she earned it, the added teacher's endorsement required approximately three, one-term night courses. By contrast, a legitimate masters degree in education would require a minimum of nine months of full-time additional coursework. Her
risk-rewarding Rahu-6 is much oppressed by conventionaliing
bandesha Shani. Therefore the scope of Rahu's ambitious deception is limited by lawful Shani. Yet the managers of her husband's political campaigns occasionally claimed that Mrs. Nixon had earned a masters degree, using the Rahu-ish reasoning that three night classes is "almost the same as "a year or more of
full-time graduate coursework. The university also, perhaps hoping to gain donations from Republican fans of Mrs. Nixon, went along with the deception (Rahu) by not publicly denying
the inflated diploma claims..

mixed but legal
marriage, mixed but legal profession, mixed but
legal social rank

POTUS-pair-37 Watergate 1912-1993Pat Ryan Nixon
married a lawyer with criminal tendencies, during her Ketu-Rahu
period
* Shani rules 3-writing. Pay wrote a legendary amount of newspaper articles, press releases, and
letters of all types. Mrs. Nixon had professional secretarial training
and retail sales background, facilitating a voluminous output of
communication. Due to Rahu, her communications were an
instrumental part of the
Nixon campaign's public relations inflated-mage program.

Often some irregularity in the social standing of
the family of origin

Professor Rahu seeks respect through
hierarchical position (Shani) with
attributes that may be surprisingly marginal, extreme, exotic,
or forbidden

One may be magnetically
fascinating to those interested in exotic
systems

In a hierarchy governed by elders and
high-status holders, those of higher rank may have amplified
entitlements; the governors of the social order may
however over-reach in order to expand their
entitlements to material status objects

It can be
confusing, since social regulators seem to break
their own rules in order to fast-track their
entitlements.

Passion for
Regulation, Statutory structures, orderly process
and protocol * with an exotic twist, often
legislating exotic materials or behaviors

POTUS-25 Gold Standard 1843-1901William McKinley * Mula
lagna * served as a legitimating face of
governance. Behind the facade of his affable,
diplomatic (Zukra-1) personality, he was
controlled by a cohort of elite businessmen and
empire-makers who used him to promote their
capitalistic market dominance, no matter the
consequences for "the little guy".